UPDATE: Power back on after about 17,000 Xcel customers in Greeley area were in the dark

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UPDATE: 2:40 p.m. Sunday — Xcel spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said Sunday afternoon that the Saturday night power outage affected about 17,000 customers in the Greeley area. A second, unrelated outage that affected about 3,000 Greeley-area customers was initially believed to be related to the first outage.

Aguayo also said the investigation of the outage is ongoing, and Xcel hopes to have more information available Monday.

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Power was restored about 10:20 p.m. Saturday to downtown Greeley and other areas that had lost power earlier in the night.

A widespread power outage caused about 20,000 customers in the Greeley area to lose power at 9:06 p.m. Saturday and they were without power for more than an hour. Parts of Evans also experienced the outage, as did residents in LaSalle.

Xcel spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said crews were working just after 9 p.m. to restore power.

“We don’t have a cause as of yet,” she said. She said the problem involved a transmission line, which is a larger power line, but she didn’t know what the specific cause was. She said it’s likely that most customers who lost power got it back at roughly the same time. However, a small number of customers may still have been without power for a short time after most others got it back.

Greeley police Lt. Adam Turk said he did not know what caused the outage, but officers and firefighters were called to the scene of the power substation at 10th Street and 23rd Avenue shortly after the outage began. When officers arrived on the scene, they found no problems.

Aguayo said she also wasn’t able to provide any more information about what may have caused the outage.

“The first priority is to get out there to try to determine what the cause is and get that repaired,” she said.

Evans police said they had no reports of problems during the power outage. Turk said Greeley police also did not receive any reports of problems, such as traffic crashes.